Author Archives: David Bromwich

About David Bromwich

David Bromwich teaches literature at Yale. He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and has written on politics and culture for The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and other magazines. He is editor of Edmund Burke's selected writings On Empire, Liberty, and Reform and co-editor of the Yale University Press edition of On Liberty.

Israel to 2-State Solution: Drop Dead!

LRB has a powerful collection of contributors condemning the slaughter. Excerpts: Yitzhak Laor: Israel is engaged in a long war of annihilation against Palestinian society. The objective is to destroy the Palestinian nation and drive it back into pre-modern groupings…
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Bromwich on Friedman

David Bromwich writes: Thomas Friedman’s column today, his first on the bombing and invasion of Gaza, enthusiastically supports Israel’s actions as part of a Middle East strategy that Barak Obama ought to endorse. Friedman writes, he says, on behalf of…
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Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, US Politics | 23 Comments